The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-20
TRAIN ROBBERY.
Twelve Bold Bad Men Collect Contrbu-
tons.

tons.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 20.-Mr.
Landa gives vivid account of the at
tack by the robbers at Mcneil Wednes-
day night Before the train arrived they
had secured the station agent and firmly
bound him. AS the train slowed up at
the station the robbers, to the number of
twelve or fifteen, fred several volleys to
intimidate the passengers. MIR. Landa,
hearing the shots, raised his window and
looked out, when an order was given
him to draw his head back and close the
window. Before he had time to comply
he was wounded in the arm and badly
powder burned by shot fired in close
proximity. There was considerable con
fusion about the train, and passengers
lay down on the floor and crawled under
hunks to escape the flying bullets. The
train was held up for nearly half an
hour, after which it was allowed to pro-
ceed. The door of the express car was
forced open and about $4,000 were taken.
The mess engers were made to throw up
their hands, and were ordered to hand
over the cash and registers. S. r.
Spaulding, the railway postal clerk, told
them he had none rs the day line carried
all registers and was informed that they
didn't care for them, as they were not
after Uncle SAM but Jay Gould The
robbers were in very good humo-, and
after going through the express car bade
pleasant goodnight and decamped. Some
of the men were masked, but the one
that did the ordering was unmasked, tall
and dressed like a cowboy. Express
Messenger n athacker, who was ordered
to turn over the money, handed the rob
bers only small amount and was beat
en- over the head. A brakeman was
wounded in the fusilade. Postal Clerk
Spaulding says he distinctly heard the
order given by the leader, Don't touch
any of the passengers and don't shoot
any of our own men," The messenger
says that he believes the men were green
hands in the business.
ANOTHER PASSENGERS ACCOUNT.
WACO, Tex, May 2O.-Mr. c. W.
White, of Waco, who was passenger
on the train, gives the following facts
of the robbers
The train left Austin for Waco on
time, and when it pulled up at Mcneil
Station, which is at the crossing of the
Austin e. Northwestern railroad, they
found the agent and two gentlemen who
intended to take passage on the Missouri
Pacific train, in charge of twelve rob
bers, who came to the Station well
mounted and armed.
The robbers had rolled log in front
of the engine, and the engineer and fire.
man were guarded while the Others
proceeded to fire into the top Of the
cars on the train. The passengers were
told that if they kept quiet they would
not be molested, and they kept quiet.
The robbers fired about 100 shots into
the coaches to help keep up the quiet
ness of the passengers.
Mr.. Harry Landa, of San Antouio,
was shot through the hand, hut the
wound is not dangerous. A brakeman,
whose name Mr. White did not learn,
had his cheek and nose grazed by bull
let. The robbers made for the express
car, which was in charge of Mr.. A. j.
Northacker, and demanded that he. open
it, but Mr.. Northacker refused to uobey
their commands. They then broke open
the car door and knocked the express
man down. The safe was broken open
and robbed. How much money they
got no one seems to know. The amount
has been variously estimated at from
SCI 900 to s55, ,00O Mr.. White said the
expressman would not or could not tell
the amount of money that had been
taken. He said to Mr.. White: "When |
saw the fellow start out with the silver,
which was bulky package. /
thought | was safe, but when they
returned and commenced looking for the
currency knew it was all up with me"
1t is to be supposed from these remarks
that the robbers secured large amount
of money. After the robbers had se-
cured the Doodle they told the train men
to roll the log of the track and they
could 90 on. Mr.. White, before leaving
tho station had talk with the agent